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Journal articles on the topic "Herman Melville"

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Olsen-Smith, Steven. "Herman Melville's Planned Work on Remorse." Nineteenth-Century Literature 50, no. 4 (March 1, 1996): 489–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2933925.

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Thomas Powell, an English-born journalist, claimed in April 1856 that Melville once announced to him a plan for a work "intended to illustrate the principle of remorse, and to demonstrate that there is, very often, less real virtue in moral respectability than in accidental crime." Powell was a thief and a forger who took refuge in Manhattan in 1849 after being banished from the London literary establishment, where he had been an intimate of Dickens and Browning. A crative liar, Powell could have fabricated his claim about the planned work on remorse. Yet he had ample opportunity to hear Melville discourse about a projected work that had not been printed by 1856. Upon his arrival in New York, Powell had attached himself to Melville's friend Evert A. Duyckinck, then quickly made Melville's acquaintance. In June 1849 he was a guest in Melville's house, perhaps the day Melville gave him a copy of the newly published Mardi. The theme was congenial to Melville, who had used "Remorse" as the title of a chapter in Mardi. Melville's later works, moreover, including what we know of the lost The Isle of the Cross, bear close affinities with the planned work as Powell described it. Unless further evidence corroborates Powell's claim, we cannot know for certain that Melville ever discussed writing a work on remorse. Still, considering the highly Melvillean nature of the theme as Powell recalled it, the words of this English scoundrel will ring true to many lovers of Melville.

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Spindler, Robert. "Herman Melville." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 68, no. 2 (June 25, 2020): 217–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2020-0021.

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Tally Jr., Robert. "Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man: Race, Class, and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in the American Renaissance Writer." Historical Materialism 17, no. 3 (2009): 235–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/146544609x12469428108781.

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AbstractTally reviews Loren Goldner's Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic King, which posits that Melville was the American Marx, exposing the crisis of bourgeois ideology in the revolutionary period around 1848. In this, Goldner follows a tradition of Marxian scholarship of Melville, notably including C.L.R. James, Michael Paul Rogin, and Cesare Casarino. Tally concludes that Goldner's argument, while interesting, is limited by its focus on American exceptionalism and by ignoring the postnational force of Melville's novels.

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Qi, Wenjin. "Transcendentalism in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 12, no. 2 (March 1, 2021): 275. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1202.08.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson's Transcendentalist beliefs had dominated American literature in the Romantic period. It has remained an appealing interest in exploring whether Herman Melville had been influenced by Transcendentalism and in what ways it is embodied in his work. Therefore, this study carries out a detailed analysis of Melville's Transcendentalist tendency in his masterpiece of Moby-Dick. It is found that the characterization of Ahab as a Transcendentalist hero and Ishmael as an Emersonian Individualist are two cases in the point. Furthermore, it also reveals the embodiment of Oversoul in the narration. Altogether, they testify the sign of Transcendental influence over Melville in this novel.

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Bryant, John L. "Melville and the Indians: Reading, Cosmopolitanism, and the Biographical Condition." Er(r)go. Teoria - Literatura - Kultura, no. 43 (December 30, 2021): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/errgo.11687.

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Responding to the distrust in biography, widely accepted in literary studies, this article attempts to rethink the relationship between the reader and the author, with a special emphasis put on the role of the biographer. Such a task might help us read such texts authored by Herman Melville as Pierre; or The Ambiguities, which tend to raise our amazement and anxiety with their autobiographical entanglement. Moreover, the analyses of reading habits of the Melville family are crucial if we endeavour to understand Herman Melville’s progressing cosmopolitism and cultural empathy, influenced by the black legend of his grandfather and his involvement in the genocide of Native Americans.

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Clinton, Daniel. "Line and Lineage." Nineteenth-Century Literature 73, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2018.73.1.1.

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Daniel Clinton, “Line and Lineage: Visual Form in Herman Melville’s Pierre and Timoleon” (pp. 1–29) This essay examines Herman Melville’s reflections on form, line, and perspective in his novel Pierre (1852) and his poems on art and architecture in Timoleon (1891), a late book of verse partly inspired by his tour of the Mediterranean during 1856–57. I argue that Melville arrives at his understanding of literary form through the language of optical perspective, particularly the terms of “foreshortening” and “outline.” I compare Melville’s figurative conception of outline with the artistic theories and practices of William Blake, George Cumberland, John Ruskin, and the artist John Flaxman, whose illustrations of Homer and Dante feature prominently in Pierre. Widely circulated as engravings by Tommaso Piroli and others, Flaxman’s clean-lined drawings fascinate Melville because they emphasize implied narrative rather than optical verisimilitude. Melville responds to a romantic discourse that positions “outline” on the conceptual boundary between sense-perception and free-floating thought, as a mediating term between competing notions of art’s truth. In both his fiction and poetry, Melville’s reflection on the materiality of pictures doubles as a reflection on the materiality of thought. The formal features of visual art suggest the workings of the mind as it flattens unconscious possibilities and disparate truths into a manageable picture of the world.

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Davis, Clark, and Robert L. Gale. "A Herman Melville Encyclopedia." South Atlantic Review 61, no. 1 (1996): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3200775.

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Morowitz, Harold J. "Herman Melville, Marine Biologist." Biological Bulletin 220, no. 2 (April 2011): 83–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/bblv220n2p83.

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Hay, John. "Broken Hearths: Melville's Israel Potter and the Bunker Hill Monument." New England Quarterly 89, no. 2 (June 2016): 192–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00528.

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When he dedicated Israel Potter to the Bunker Hill Monument, Herman Melville gestured to an eminent national memorial which took so long to build that it appeared to be in ruins before it was finished. Melville's novel addresses the temporal quirks of both patriotic communal commemoration and posthumous personal recognition.

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PARKER, HERSHEL. "The Isle of the Cross and Poems: Lost Melville Books and the Indefinite Afterlife of Error." Nineteenth-Century Literature 62, no. 1 (June 1, 2007): 29–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2007.62.1.29.

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Reviewers of Hershel Parker's Herman Melville: A Biography, 1851––1891 in the New York Times and other influential papers expressed disbelief that The Isle of the Cross and Poems (1860) had ever existed. In fact, Melville scholars had known much about The Isle of the Cross (but not the name) for decades and since 1922 had known almost everything about Poems. Like these reviewers, many other modern critics no longer perform archival research themselves and fail to acknowledge decades of basic documentary work done on Melville. It is as if critics believe nothing new could have been discovered after 1921, the year of Raymond Weaver's biography of Melville. The consequence of this ignorance, manifest in much literary criticism, is a pernicious distortion of the trajectory of Melville's whole literary career.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Herman Melville"

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Treichel, Tamara. ""And so hell's probable" : Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" and "Pierre" as descent narratives /." Trier : WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2009. http://www.wvttrier.de.

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Treichel, Tamara. ""And so hell's probable" Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Pierre as descent narratives." Trier Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2008. http://www.wvttrier.de.

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Nishiura, Toru. "The description of the characters in Herman Melville's White-jacket, or the world in a man-of-war." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2005. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=589.

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Müller, Wolfgang. "Recht und Literatur als friedlose Konstellation eine Arbeit zu Herman Melvilles Bartleby und Billy Budd und zu William Dean Howells' An imperative duty /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/2002/219/index.html.

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Corner, Jason L. ""Monstrous Compounds": Genre and Value in Herman Melville." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155666766.

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Wolford, Donald L. "Calvin Cohn : confidence man interpreting Bernard Malamud's God's grace as a parody of Herman Melville's The confidence-man /." Connect to resource online, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1253394734.

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Schlarb, Damien Brian Melville Herman. "Melville's quest for certainty questing and spiritual stability in Herman Melville's Moby dick /." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12012006-094528/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.
Title from title screen. Reiner Smolinski, committee chair; Robert Sattelmeyer, Paul Schmidt, committee members. Electronic text (121 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 19. 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-121).

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Dively, Ronda S. "Empathy for Captain Ahab /." View online, 1989. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131012518.pdf.

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Dunphy, Mark Raymond. "Double consciousness in Melville's middle novels /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1985. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/8522800.

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Peck, Elka Marie. "Melville's tattoos and disguises : society, identity, audience, and appearance /." View thesis, 2002. http://wilson.ccsu.edu/theses/etd-2002-17/ThesisTitlePage.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2002.
Thesis advisor: Robert Dunne. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English Literature." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-64). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Books on the topic "Herman Melville"

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Harold, Bloom, ed. Herman Melville. New York, NY: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008.

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Herman Melville. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2012.

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Harold, Bloom, ed. Herman Melville. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005.

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Arvin, Newton. Herman Melville. New York: Grove Press, 2002.

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Kelley, Wyn, ed. Herman Melville. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470694084.

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Bloom, Harold. Herman Melville. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.

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Herman Melville. New York: Continuum, 1993.

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Harold, Bloom, ed. Herman Melville. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999.

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Harold, Bloom. Herman Melville. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.

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Harold, Bloom, ed. Herman Melville. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2003.

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Book chapters on the topic "Herman Melville"

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Göske, Daniel. "Melville, Herman." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_12127-1.

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Peck, John. "Herman Melville." In Maritime Fiction, 107–26. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780333985212_7.

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Breinig, Helmbrecht. "Melville, Herman." In Englischsprachige Autoren, 177–81. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-02951-5_69.

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Ensslen, Klaus, and Daniel Göske. "Melville, Herman: Typee." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_12128-1.

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Lyons, Paul. "Global Melville." In A Companion to Herman Melville, 52–68. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470996782.ch4.

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Kreutzberger, Wolfgang. "Herman Melville (1819–1891)." In Frauenliebe Männerliebe, 270–74. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-03666-7_60.

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Ensslen, Klaus, and Daniel Göske. "Melville, Herman: Benito Cereno." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–3. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_12133-1.

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Marovitz, Sanford E. "The Melville Revival." In A Companion to Herman Melville, 515–31. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470996782.ch33.

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Bryant, John. "The Melville Text." In A Companion to Herman Melville, 553–66. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470996782.ch35.

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Renker, Elizabeth. "Melville the Realist Poet." In A Companion to Herman Melville, 482–96. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470996782.ch31.

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